Sigmar Gabriel
Sigmar Gabriel
Sigmar Gabrielis a German politician who serves as the Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy and as the 17th Vice Chancellor of Germany since 2013. Since 2009 he has been chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. He was the Minister of the Environment from 2005 to 2009. From 1999 to 2003 Gabriel was the 9th Minister President of Lower Saxony...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 September 1959
CountryGermany
loss hands risk
What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand.
ideas nuclear growing
The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.
europe world lasts
Maybe it is the last chance for Europe to influence standards for world trade. Next it will be between the US and the Asia-Pacific region.
people support reform
The task for Germany today is - through its own policies and its own structural reforms, its own investments - to support the EU and the Commission... but every nation has to have the courage to broach such structural reforms and speak clearly about them without making people be afraid.
country technology hands
If we want to implement climate protection worldwide, countries like Germany, which are capable of developing new technologies, will have to hand over some of their knowledge. We can't expect to have our cake and eat it too.
sound management conservation
Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.
desire climate hardest-hit
Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.
country iran israel
What could become a danger to world peace is Iran's nuclear program and the country's open threat to annihilate Israel.
people peaceful germany
In Germany it is good if as many people as possible join initiatives and peaceful demonstrations against the rule of the financial markets. Worshipping the unfettered freedom of global markets has brought the world to the brink of ruin. We now need social and ecological rules for the market economy.
wall democracy example
The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.
hate long germany
Those who reject integration programs in the long term have as little right to stay in Germany as a hate preacher paid from abroad in a mosque.
needs greening globalisation
We need a greening of globalisation.
jobs home people
But, as environment minister, I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry, because I can only pay for the rising costs of environmental protection at home and abroad if there are people in Germany with jobs and who pay taxes.
europe germany needs
We, the Social Democrats, are convinced that capitalism needs to be tamed a second time. The first time we achieved that in Germany for many decades with the social market economy. That is no longer enough. Now we need to do it in Europe and even globally.